Historical Movies

What changed and what remained in border towns where the German presence was erased after World War II? Two young filmmakers delve into what we still...

The Story of Mouseland was a story first told by Clarence Gillis, and later and most famously by Tommy Douglas, leader of the Saskatchewan...

A fragmented collection of legends born from the rubble of the catastrophic Friuli Earthquake of May 6, 1976.

Eleven songs of Illinois, resurrecting ghosts across time and space. Each location borrowed from elsewhere. Among them Norway, Normandy, Lisbon,...

In the summer of 1900, the first film camera was purchased by Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar for Iran, and immediately the first Iranian moving images...

A documentary covering the harrowing tragedy of the SS Morro Castle.

Hilversum in Black and White portrays Hilversum in the period 1924-1974. Using amateur footage and excerpts from Polygoon newsreels from that period,...

Combining magical realism and evocative hand-drawn animation with revelatory interviews and verité footage, "Among Neighbors" examines the...

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three...

In a 19th century England, young Henry Pinkerton is about to take part in a pistol duel. Across the town, his opponent - Lord Wilbert Digby, a bully...

Nine centuries ago, Ibn Arabi started his last trip to Damasco. Now, a man is thrown to the sand by the sea.

After successfully recapturing Semerah Padi from the terrorists who had killed his father Demang Satria, Adi Putra decides to rule Semerah Padi under...

It adroitly tells the story of a "counter culture" young man who when his grandfather dies, packs the body in dry ice, and stores him in a Tuff Shed,...

This is a short documentary about the old City of Buenos Aires and the new one. It’s an observational piece where the old photos of the same...

Factory (Super)Women explores the narratives of factory women who paved the way towards Singapore's economic success. Inspired by his mother and...

Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film...

Adrian Ormache, a wealthy and well-known lawyer, discovers his father's dark past, commander Ormache, who along with his troops used to torture...

The film takes place in the Swedish capitol Stockholm during the year 1809. War has ravaged Europe continuously for the last seventeen years. The...